Recently, I talked to my friend and was surprised that he was not aware of NotebookLM by Google. Hence decided to write this brief note describing how I use it. NotebookLM is a service developed by Google allowing you to interactively analyze any documents using LLM. An interactive personal RAG at your hand. The emphasis here is on interactivity. You basically chat with your document. You ask questions and the LLM provides you with answers. ...

It is the time to reset my MacBook again. Last time was in 2024: Setting up a Mac in 2024. The main plan is as follows: Configure MacOs to my preferred defaults Install Homebrew Install basic tools Install my dotfiles from https://github.com/korya/dotfiles Install all required tools Install Tailscale Other configurations Configure MacOS Change MacOS hostname By default, MacOS sets the hostname to a ridiculous value based on your name. Something as “Dmitri’s MacBook Pro”. I prefer to name my machines after latin or greek gods. Easy to remember and easy to identify them in the office network. ...

I had to reset my old mac from scratch today. Here I am going to document the steps to reproduce my environment. The main plan is as follows: Configure MacOs to my preferred defaults Install Homebrew Install basic tools Install my dotfiles from https://github.com/korya/dotfiles Install all required tools Install Tailscale Other configurations Configure MacOS Change MacOS hostname By default, MacOS sets the hostname to a ridiculous value based on your name. Something as “Dmitri’s MacBook Pro”. I prefer to name my machines after latin or greek gods. Easy to remember and easy to identify them in the office network. ...